Zane found it on a Wednesday.
Three weeks after the wedding. Three weeks of systematic cataloguing — Neva's organizational methodology applied to forty years of surveillance recordings, the cross-referencing running backward through time toward the period when the systematic lie had been deployed against bloodline carriers.
He found it at two in the morning.
Not because he was awake at two in the morning specifically for this. He was awake at two in the morning because that was sometimes when the archive work happened, when the compound was quiet enough that the concentration required for the cataloguing could reach its full depth. Neva had left at midnight — she had a four-week-old child and a supply chain to manage and the cataloguing was important but her body's requirements were als
